David Brooks

So I scaled back after that.

And then once Elon took over, it sort of all fractured.

And so I'll follow Twitter and I'll especially follow, I do political Twitter.

I force myself to have half of my people are

Blue, half a red, and some of the MAGA people really annoy me, but it's important that I encounter them.

And then I do AI Twitter, and I do New York Mets Twitter, which is my baseball team.

So I do that.

I don't do—I haven't been on Facebook in years.

I've never been on Instagram.

I'm not on TikTok.

I find it too addictive.

And so my social media is down.

And I find, like your son—

A lot of young people understand what's happening.

They don't need Jonathan Haidt, God bless him for what he's doing, but they don't need him to explain what's happening.

And I visit a lot of high schools every year, and I've never met a student that's not happy with the phone bans.

They love the phone bans.

And your son is right to be suspicious of AI, using it as a cognitive crutch, because it really is going to be damaging.

Yeah.

In that circumstance, I always say, asking what do I want to do with my life is too big a question.